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A guide to consciously exploring and honoring the spiritual and emotional journey of becoming a parent
List of contents
Foreword by Linda Star Wolf
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Psychospiritual Exploration of Parenthood
Part 1
SOULFUL PARENTING
A Shamanic Psychospiritual Path
1 The Soulful Parenthood Journey A Multifaceted Process of Embodiment
2 Psychospiritual Initiation Healing and Transforming Ourselves as Parents 3 Rebirthing into Parenthood
4 Connecting with the Wisdom of Nature
5 Expanding Consciousness, Exploring Your Gifts
Part 2
OUR DEEPEST TEACHERS
The Light and Dark of Creating a Family
6 Opening to the Wisdom of Your Fertility Journey
7 Pregnancy Loss and Miscarriage The Lost Teachers of Creation
8 Adoption Birthing through the Heart
9 Blended Families Weaving New Relationships
Part 3
Psychospiritual Support for the Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Journey
10 The First Trimester of Pregnancy
11 The Second Trimester of Pregnancy
12 The Third Trimester of Pregnancy
13 The Birth Journey
14 Early Parenting and the Postpartum Period
15 Soul to Soul
The Family Journey
Index
About the author
Anna Cariad-Barrett, DMin, is a psychospiritual counselor, shamanic minister, and teacher with degrees in shamanic psychospiritual studies, marriage and family therapy, and family social science. The coauthor of Sacred Medicine of Bee, Butterfly, Earthworm, and Spider, she is a faculty member at Venus Rising University and teaches workshops around the country. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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A guide to consciously exploring and honoring the spiritual and emotional journey of becoming a parent
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“Anna Cariad-Barrett has written a profoundly important work for all parents, whether their child is yet to be born or is already alive at any age. Our culture has only weakly supported the most sacred of the rites of passage--birth. Many of our family traditions shared wisdom and positive experiences in raising a child; but many more could only pass down trauma and dysfunction to the next generation. This book is for anyone who wants to transform existing patterns in their own or the collective family and offers practical and spiritual exercises for assistance. Bravo, Anna, the children of the world thank you.”
